I am struggling to write this on Thursday night.‘Under normal temperature and pressure’, as we used to say in physics class in those days, I should be commenting on the Super Eagles and their prospects in the very crucial first...
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Why Cameroons must fall!
These are not the best of times for Nigerian football and for those in the business in Nigeria. Since the end of the last World Cup in Brazil, the football industry has been in famine. The reason is simple –...
The Ghost of Hayatou resurrects in Rabat!
Issa Hayatou has resurrected in Morocco at the CAF Executive Committee meeting taking place in the city of Rabat. This time around, instead of haunting all his opponents as was the case for the many decades of his endless, autocratic...
2030 – West Africa’s turn to host the World Cup!
On the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2017, I followed the news on CNN. It was about USA, Mexico and Canada, in short the entire North American continent, bidding to host the FIFA World Cup in 2026 when the new...
Solomon Dalung versus Federation Presidents!
Elections into the board of national sports federations are just around the corner. They have generated a lot of controversy within the sports family these past few weeks. Different groups are contesting for the power to control the different national...
The ‘killing’ of Liberty Stadium, once one of the best stadia in the world!
I anchor a new sports programme on Africa’s largest television network, the NTA, with a conservative domestic viewership of some 60 million Nigerians in all corners of the country. The live programme, The Sports Parliament, has been running for 10...
Messi, Ronaldo, and the greatest player in history debate!
FC Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegan thinks so – that Lionel Messi is the greatest player in the history of the game! He joins millions of people around the world, including yours truly, who also think so and are celebrating...
Sports revolution fire in Edo State – advancing the legacy of Ogbemudia!
Something exciting is cooking in Edo State. I need to tell it and predict its probable outcome. At last I believe that there is a new ‘prophet’ in the land, somebody in authority, someone that has the political will...
N’Golo Kante – one tree that makes a forest!
A participant at a company retreat that I attended during the week asked me an interesting question: ‘when a team has won something and become successful, what does it do to sustain it and to keep winning?’ It was a...
CAF Elections – The fall of Hayatou and the rise of Ahmad!
He should have seen the handwriting on the wall. He should known it was a matter of time before fate would catch up with him. The signs have been all around him for several years now but the intoxicating effect...
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